Word: maudlinity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Publisher Ochs was delighted to brighten with Nosko's screed the dull squabbles or the maudlin applause of his other correspondents, he was even more delighted to observe that a controversy had been started which concerned not Josef Nosko's mongrel, Buster, but the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In the process of the controversy, as detailed in the news columns of the Times, the A. S. P. C. A. was accused of malpractices more disreputable than the theft of Nosko's Buster...
When the crowd of students watched the athletic building go up in flame and smoke yesterday morning they witnessed the passing of a landmark, despite its newness in comparison with other buildings of Harvard, well-dyed in the athletic history of the University. There is no room for maudlin sentimentality in Harvard tradition but there is enough sincere regret in the burning of the locker building to make its loss more one of attachment than of practicality. It is fortunate that the building is to be replaced by a modern structure through graduate generosity, but up to date conveniences...